SUDDEN DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 54, 5 March 1901, Page 3

SUDDEN DEATH.

A man named John Callaghan, of TTirinaka 70 years of age, died vevy fuEly on board the s.s. Wellington tart right. The vessel left the wharf at 10.30 p.m. for Whangarei, and had only got a little below the Railway WhL! when Callaghan, who ™ * ting near the cabin skylight, tell to the deck. When picked up he was ound to be quite dead. The vessel at once returned to the wharf, where the body was handed over to the police, Constables Shaw and OahiU removmg it to the wharf. . Deceased was a very old colonist, having been resident in New Zealand at the time of Heke's war. For many years he was engaged m the gumbuying business. He was a man oi considerable education, and vyas a careful student of geology. He was the original prospector of the Kiripaka Coal Company, at Ngunguru, and was also a shareholder in the Hikurangi Coal Company, while he was one of the original holders of the Great Barrier Coal mine. Lately ne has been living at Kiripaka, and came to town three weeks ago to endeavour to float the Phoenix Coal Company, Kiripaka. He was a widower, and leaves one son, a baker, at Kiripaka, Deceased was in company w: S C Brown yesterday afternoon, and when he left that gentleman at five o'clock was apparently in good health.